<p>Is her going to a concert that’s off campus any different than her going to a concert that’s not at home? Would you be comfortable with her going to a concert while she is living at home?</p>
<p>Trains are not inherently dangerous things.</p>
<p>Thanks, newb. I am comfortable with her doing stuff like that at home where she knows her surroundings, but when she’s on the other side of the continent in a new place, I start getting jumpy. Good to know trains are basically safe.</p>
<p>trains are safe, but its not so easy to get to montclair by train from princeton-- you have to go all the way into secaucus and then transfer and go back out to montclair. Its possible the montclair line does not run on the weekend (the line past montclair doesn’t, but its possible that the trains run to montclair and don’t continue farther). Its a pretty easy drive up there though, if she knows friends with cars.</p>
<p>Which airport should I fly to if I’m flying from San Francisco to get to Princeton?</p>
<p>Newark. It’s by far the easiest to get to school from. </p>
<p>If you insist on flying something like JetBlue bc you scored a good deal, then JFK is probably your best bet. Then take the commuter rail to NY Penn (much faster than the subway), then NJTransit from NY Penn to Princeton Junction.</p>
<p>Wow. Flying in on September 11th. Really Princeton? You couldn’t picked a better day for hundreds of freshmen to fly in on?</p>
<p>If you did OA or CA you wouldn’t have to fly in on the 11th. :p</p>
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<p>That troubled me, too. But then my parents decided we would drive down there haha</p>
<p>When picking precepts/labs, is it better to have them on the same days as the lectures?</p>
<p>These might have already been asked but I’ll go ahead:</p>
<p>1) If I know I want to study IR/policy, should I go to P where there’s only a 50% acceptance rate in the major? I don’t really want to study political theory, and I think WWS is the perfect program for me, so I don’t want to be left in the dust. </p>
<p>2) What do people do on the weekends? What is there to do in town?</p>
<p>3) How is the on-campus food? Dorms?</p>
<p>4) Just how great is the legendary undergraduate teaching experience? :)</p>
<p>5) Help. I haven’t done anything in my summers besides family reunions, soccer, work, and church mission trips. What are they looking for when they ask about summer activities/what should I highlight?</p>
<p>precept/lab scheduling - Having labs later in the week could possibly sometimes give you an advantage since sometimes they cover material in class that week that is useful for lab. In cos 126, you take part 1 of your exams during lecture and part 2 during precept, so it might make sense to have them on different days as the two parts require different types of preparation. But in general, I don’t think it makes much of a difference when you schedule precepts and labs. How you arrange your schedule is really a personal preference - some people like having all their classes clumped together so they have larger chunks of free time, while others like to spread our their classes so they have breaks and don’t have any days with a really heavy schedule.
Some things which you won’t know until classes start, but might be helpful to think about, as you might be able to switch sections: Which section(s) is the professor teaching? What days you do have weekly problem sets due? Do any of your classes have review sessions?</p>
<p>how is the gym at princeton?
and is the indoor track open to all students?</p>
<p>thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Dillon is a good gym. They recently expanded the cardio section (way more treadmills and ellipticals and bikes) and made a new cardio room so there’s rarely a wait.</p>
<p>For the engineering requirement, can I take MAT 200 instead of MAT 201 and 202? And what do you think about the workload of my potential first semester schedule:</p>
<p>CHM 207
MAT 201 (I wouldn’t take this if I can just take 200 next semester)
COS 126
ECO 101
FRS 149</p>
<p>What’s faster? The train or renting a car when traveling from Newark to Princeton? How long does each take? I’m sorry if this has been asked before.</p>
<p>mrscollege - look at the train schedule and see how well it matches up with your arrival time. Not all trains stop at the airport and princeton jct and are closely followed by the dinky going to princeton. Depending on how many stops it’s making in between, it can take between about an hour and an hour and a half. I don’t know how long it takes to drive (mapquest it?) but I’d see the main advantages of renting a car as:
-easier if you have a lot of stuff (remember that you have to change trains)
-you can drive to stores (if you’re flying in, there’s likely to be a lot stuff you need to buy at princeton, and there’s no walmart-type store in walking distance) </p>
<p>skyhigh - mat 200 doesn’t work for the engineering requirement. you need 201/202 or 203/204. Most likely, taking 5 classes isn’t a good idea and your advisor won’t let you do it. Is there any particular reason why you want to take 5 classes this semester? Also, what about physics? Are you APing out (which pretty much means you can never take a physics course at princeton)? If not, you need to take physics this fall.</p>
<p>does princeton only require a commonapp teacher evaluation and no letter of recommendation? so teachers would only have to do the commonapp teacher evaluation form?</p>
<p>Does one bad score (math-640) completely rule me out, as in should I even bother applying to Princeton?</p>
<p>What are your other stats like? I don’t think one score kills any application.</p>
<p>over a 4.0 unweighted</p>
<p>CR- 740
Writing- 770
World History sat ii - 780
us history sat ii - 760</p>
<p>taking all aps/honors</p>
<p>decent extracuriculars
good essay
good recs</p>